I like Fred, too. I really liked Illyria, though. And not just for the hotness and the showcasing of AA’s acting abilities. Illyria’s possession of Fred was problematic because of all the uber-romanticization of Fred that came along with it (we’ve talked some about this before, when we talked about Wes/Fred) but once Illyria was actually around, i found her really interesting. She was somewhat like Anya and Glory with the whole Superiority Complex Wisdom of Ages Trapped in Inferior Human Body thing going on, but she also has her own schtick.
Tara was the only character i really identified with (though as i got older i identified with Giles more, but by that time ME had already invented Tara). I like her muchly. I really liked Willow/Tara until Willow started messing with her mind and i have never fully forgiven her for that and ever since then i was all “Tara, you are too good for her” and we had this conversation in the comments of your Tara&Giles fic, didn’t we? :)
I hated hated hated Angel’s decision to mindwipe the crew. I really liked Connor getting his memories back and having NFA make canon the suspicions we all had after "Origin."
I thought the pacing in S7 was horrible, but looking back at the episode list to cull out highlights for a friend, i realized that a lot of the episodes were really good, or at least had really good stuff in them.
I think S6 does lots of really interesting things with depression and transitioning into the “real world” of adult life being on your own and about abusive relationships (though i disliked some of the ways Buffy/Spike was played). I’m a big fan of Spike (all phases, though i think bringing him onto Angel was a bad decision, because he was basically just superfluous comic relief) and thought Buffy/Spike was a really great relationship of complementary darknesses and issues though sometimes it was written badly and i hated that Buffy got so abusive towards Spike and wouldn’t let herself have the good relationship that it could be. And while i understand Spike feeling that he had to get a soul in order to be worthy of Buffy or prove himself to her or whatever, i disliked that it seemed like the writing staff thought he needed a soul to truly be a good guy or whatever because i really liked that he had turned good despite not having a soul and saw it as the latest step in the progression of the soul/morality development of the Jossverse.
My understanding is that a lot of the badness of S6 Buffy/Spike as well as magic!crack was Marti working out a lot of her issues, and for that i dislike her (though of course Joss deserves some blame as well for letting her do it) but i don’t have mad hate for her. And
I dislike the hate and stupidity and insults (and atrociously bad fanfic) in fandom but love the community of critical thinking. Yes, it has ruined me in some ways, but i tend to think that if something can’t stand up to a good critical eye than maybe i don’t wanna be watching it. (This is me being a bitch and clearly is not how everyone operates, and i wouldn’t require that everyone operate as i do -- much though i might like to.)
I also am not particularly compelled by Spike/Angel and agree with your paragraph thereon.
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Date: 2005-02-03 05:05 am (UTC)Tara was the only character i really identified with (though as i got older i identified with Giles more, but by that time ME had already invented Tara). I like her muchly. I really liked Willow/Tara until Willow started messing with her mind and i have never fully forgiven her for that and ever since then i was all “Tara, you are too good for her” and we had this conversation in the comments of your Tara&Giles fic, didn’t we? :)
I hated hated hated Angel’s decision to mindwipe the crew. I really liked Connor getting his memories back and having NFA make canon the suspicions we all had after "Origin."
I thought the pacing in S7 was horrible, but looking back at the episode list to cull out highlights for a friend, i realized that a lot of the episodes were really good, or at least had really good stuff in them.
I think S6 does lots of really interesting things with depression and transitioning into the “real world” of adult life being on your own and about abusive relationships (though i disliked some of the ways Buffy/Spike was played). I’m a big fan of Spike (all phases, though i think bringing him onto Angel was a bad decision, because he was basically just superfluous comic relief) and thought Buffy/Spike was a really great relationship of complementary darknesses and issues though sometimes it was written badly and i hated that Buffy got so abusive towards Spike and wouldn’t let herself have the good relationship that it could be. And while i understand Spike feeling that he had to get a soul in order to be worthy of Buffy or prove himself to her or whatever, i disliked that it seemed like the writing staff thought he needed a soul to truly be a good guy or whatever because i really liked that he had turned good despite not having a soul and saw it as the latest step in the progression of the soul/morality development of the Jossverse.
My understanding is that a lot of the badness of S6 Buffy/Spike as well as magic!crack was Marti working out a lot of her issues, and for that i dislike her (though of course Joss deserves some blame as well for letting her do it) but i don’t have mad hate for her. And
I dislike the hate and stupidity and insults (and atrociously bad fanfic) in fandom but love the community of critical thinking. Yes, it has ruined me in some ways, but i tend to think that if something can’t stand up to a good critical eye than maybe i don’t wanna be watching it. (This is me being a bitch and clearly is not how everyone operates, and i wouldn’t require that everyone operate as i do -- much though i might like to.)
I also am not particularly compelled by Spike/Angel and agree with your paragraph thereon.
And really that's enough from me for now.